About three-quarters of its $10 billion annual budget is given out in grants to places like state and local health departments, which collectively lost 16,000 positions last year, according to a recent public health survey, making those grants that much more important.
"The question is whether the macroeconomic environment will grant American that much time".
Her stepfather, who was an engineer, did not even grant Clark that much power.
Despite the increasing need for such highly accurate and reliable sources of scientific information, most of them do not have secured funding over the near future and often depend on short-term grants that are much shorter than their planning horizon.
The conservative opposition comes from a different place, though: The group does not support granting that much power to the president, particularly this president.
Today, it's taken for granted that much of our news coverage is slanted left or right, but in the network era there was still a deeply held belief that news could (and should) be completely neutral.
Granted that much of Downtown was throwaway stuff, too ephemeral and experimental to last, for better or for worse, it helped to change the definition of what art and artists might be.
But she grants that much work remains to be done to make this resolution clear and generally acceptable.
Bureaucracies granted that much time could use a top to bottom evaluation for relevance and efficiency.
Twitter is certainly more mobile — that much I grant it; Facebook should be much better at that, and the FriendFeed acquisition should sew that up pretty tight in the months to come.
Granted, that student is still much, much better off with a college degree.
